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Trevor Noah, Larry Wilmore and Samantha Bee aren’t real newscasters, but they play them on TV — thanks, in part, to the real journalists in their writers’ rooms.

Satirical news has become a mainstay of pop culture. We ask, what purpose do these programs serve beyond entertainment? How beholden are they to the facts? And are the satirists speaking truth to power in a way “real” journalists cannot?

Join us for a conversation with five journalists-turned-comedy writers, researchers and producers: